Peter Cat blogs

Bleak news continue to jam the media air waves and economists who predicted this predicament as far back as 2004 are celebrated as seers and semi-gods.

 

Optimists continue to wax lyrical about how the banking systems in Asia have evolved since the last financial crisis about ten years ago, and putting faith in the US fiscal policies that should alleviate the (believed to be) worst economic crisis since the 1929 stock market crash led great depression.

 

How does the everyman stomach this fall, or falling since we are still all standing in the center of the storm, the epicenter where the deceiving calm serves only to petrify us further. (How did all these smart people, well paid and holding such important posts dudes screw up so badly?) We are bombarded by news reports, lengthy articles penned by analysts, and small talks with colleagues/friends all centering on the ’subprime led malediction’.  The ramifications unknown and nothing is quite as scary as that omnious question mark, that blankness, that silence just contemplating the foreseeable future.

 

Most of us have not lived through any bloody wars, and the ones fought in the recent past are as remote as the news articles we see on the BBC or Channel News Asia or Hollywood blockbusters. Maybe we were worried if the Amaggeddon would truly hit the last day transiting into the dawn of 2000. But even that exists on the realm of the divine and equally obscure.

 

We who grew up in the age of pagers, mobile phones, MacBook Air and McDonalds home delivery (cos we are such couch potatoes) cannot fathom the plight of starvation (maybe bulimia), widespread unemployment, or queuing up for rationed food, and water… and while the whole world is holding its breathe while pretending to go on as per normal, each one of us is quietly devising countermeasures to stay trim financially.

 

For a start, opt for home prepared cuisine instead of going to restaurants for good food: (as recommended by the very loveable Joeleen Low)

Roe Noodles bought from Japanese supermarkets, costs about S$5. 

It comes with proforated foil. Just scald the noodles twice and drain via these holes. Noodles must be very dry to max up the taste factor.